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The article focuses on the initiatives implemented by the Nature Publishing Group to the journal "Nature" to enhance the accessibility of the research papers it has published. Machine access is being enhanced by the open text-mining. Papers reporting full genome sequences are freely accessible on the group's Web sites from the moment of publication. The group also introduces a creative commons licence for the reuse of such genome papers that allows non-commercial publishers to reuse the pdf and html versions of the paper.

Reports the establishment of a publishing house, BioMed Central, to provide peer review for life science papers submitted to PubMed Central. Efforts of the Current Science Group to organize the venture; When the United States National Institutes of Health is due to launch the publishing house; How the related Web site will operate.

Focuses on scientific journal publishers' efforts to ensure that any paper cited in the electronic versions of the journals covered will be directly accessible via the World Wide Web. Agreement among industry executives attending a meeting of the International Association of Science, Technology and Medical Publishers; Association's commitment to serving its primary constituencies.